In his new book, Reading the OED, author Ammon Shea tells the story of his yearlong goal to read the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover, all 21,730 pages of it. Along the way, he introduces us to many of the odd and fascinating words he encountered on his journey. To honor his achievement, we’ve featured eleven of those words in this puzzle; you likely won’t recognize them by sight, but with the help of crossing entries you’ll soon learn their meanings like the chrestomatic sort you are. Onward!